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Transition from Exponentially Damped to Finite-Time Arrest Liquid Oscillations Induced by Contact Line Hysteresis

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At the interface with solids, the mobility of liquid molecules tends to be reduced compared with bulk, often resulting in increased local order due to interactions with the surface of the solid. At room temperature, liquids such as water and methanol can f ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

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Harm-Anton Klok

Copolymers of fluoroacrylates have interesting properties like excellent resistance to chemicals, oils and fuels, high thermal stability and high hydrophobicity. This investigation reports the copolymerization of 2,2,3,3,4,4,4-heptafluorobutyl acrylate (HF ...

Elsevier2014

Relations between roughness, temperature and dry sliding friction at the atomic scale

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We investigate the friction of deformable bodies, with nano-scale self-affine fractal rough surfaces, at the atomic scale using molecular dynamics. Different temperatures (0-400 K) are studied, while roughness and applied load are changed. During sliding, ...

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Amphiphilic amino acids: a key to adsorbing proteins to nanopatterned surfaces?

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Fluid-mediated parallel self-assembly of polymeric micro-capsules for liquid encapsulation and release

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Fluid-mediated self-assembly is one of the most promising routes for assembling and packaging smart microsystems in a scalable and cost-efficient way. In this work the pairwise fluidic self-assembly of 100 μm-sized SU-8 cylinders is studied with respect to ...

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